Engineering the world

by Caleb Pirtle

"This volume celebrates the can-do, risk-taking, innovative pioneers of Texas Instruments from the company's inception as a tiny geophysical exploration business deeply entrenched in the oilfields of the Southwest to its status today as one of the world's leading electronics companies. In photographs and anecdotes, the book tells TI's history of innovation in products and technologies, as well as in its management philosopies, personnel development, and business processes. Many of TI's customers - from IBM in the 1950s to current major telecommunications companies - have benefited from TI's technological breakthroughs." "For seven-and-a-half decades, TI has been a leader in world-changing innovations, including the first commercial silicon transistors, the first integrated circuits, and the first electronic hand-held calculator. Today, TI is at the forefront of digital signal processing and analog technologies, the semiconductor engines of the Internet age." "TIers are currently workin